PROMIS comment

by J. Orlin Grabbe

I run links to a lot of articles that I think are of interest. Some I basically agree with, some I
violently disagree with, but none of them do I think are a waste of time. Like this one. It provides
a useful overview, and I keep thinking that somewhere, somewhen, someone will get
a clue. I've long given up caring whether they do or not.

That being said, I have to make a few comments on this series of jpegs of pages from
the From the Wilderness story of PROMIS. Some of the comments may hurt; but the truth
often does. When you play with fire, you acquire a responsibility, and irresponsible people should
shut the fuck up.

Item: "While we do not claim to be worthy of pulling Excalibur from the stone . . ."

Item: ". . . one of three best informed open sources on the story in the world, William Tyree."

Comment: Is there some discrepancy here? "I don't have a clue, but I can authoritatively
tell you here is a world expert on the subject." It's like: "I don't know anything about history, but
my neighbor, who is older than I, is a genius in the subject."

Item: "The First Rip Off"

Comment: This wasn't the first rip-off. The first rip-off was when Bill Hamilton took
a program created with public funds, and attached his and Inslaw's name to it. That was the
first rip-off. The second rip-off was that of Meese/Brian/Lowell et al.

Item: "Confidential documents obtained by FTW indicate that much of the AI development was
done at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs . . ."

Item: "So meticulously researched and documented is the book [The Last Circle] that FTW's
researcher 'The Goddess' has fact checked it and found it flawless."

Comment: Gee, if I had stolen a collection of Michael Riconosciuto's files, I could
write a good summary of them also. It's amazing the number of people who have turned themselves
into "geniuses" by ripping off Riconosciuto. That's okay, I guess. Riconosciuto still has plenty
of genius left over.

Item: "The Last Circle describes in detail how Promis software was modified by
Riconosciuto to allegedly include the back door 'eavesdropping' capability but also enhanced
with one form of AI and subsequently applied to the development of new weapons systems including
'ethnospecific' biowarfare compounds capable of attacking specific races."

Comment: If the writer gets time, he will find it helpful to actually read the book. Then
he won't sound like such a clueless asshole. It's really not necessary to tie everything
Riconosciuto was involved in to the PROMIS software. To do so becomes implicit disinformation
distracting from the very real and everyday role PROMIS played in the financial world. Next we
are liable to hear that PROMIS keeps track of worldwide methamphetamine distribution. Come on.
Give everyone a break.

Item: "Bill McCoy, a loveable sixty-something giant"

Comment: In one of my Vince Foster posts, I asked if Dee Dee Myers gave Vince Foster
a blowjob the day he died. Unlike some of the questions I asked, I already knew the answer to this
one. I never provided details, because I don't consider other people's blowjobs any of my business--except
that this was relevant to the story.

Bill Hamilton was appalled at this piece of crassness. Even Sarah McClendon, God bless her lovable
old soul, was shocked. (Sarah was a tireless defender of the Clintons, but she was assisted in this
by some of her top sources, such as an in-law who was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency
[DIA]. So she was regularly fed slanted information, stemming from Clinton's Devil's Pact
with the defense establishment, a part of which involved helping the DIA crowd-out the CIA to take
over the intelligence apparatus. In any event, Clinton sent his covert jobs to the DIA, and
bypassed the CIA.)

But McCoy thought my question was funny (and not inappropriate), and he called me up and we had a good
laugh about it. McCoy was always okay in my book, and I was saddened by his death.

Item: "It is not by chance that most of the military and all of the intelligence agencies in
the U.S. now operate on Macintosh systems."

Comment: Yes, just like his father. If the writer can't pay even minimal attention to
the news, he should at least do some Internet research. If Jehovah's Witnesses show up at this
moron's door, they should skip the "Have you heard of Christ?" and go directly to "Have
you heard of Yale?" (Yes, W. did get an MBA from Harvard Business School. That doesn't
make him a Harvard graduate.)

Item: Inslaw-Promis flow chart.

Comment: Does this look like a cheap attempt to diagram my Vince Foster series
(which appeared prior to this diagram) or what? Of course, all of my writings were
top secret. You had to know how to get on the Internet. (And it doesn't matter where you are.
Chip Tatum once told me how he used to make copies of my posts and pass them around
in the prison he was at.)

Item: "Stephens' financial firm Alltel, heir to Systematics"

Comment: If you are going to rip-off my Vince Foster series, at least get
the story straight. Alltel is the Arkansas phone company. Jackson sold Systematics to
Alltel, whereupon it became Alltel Information Services. And so on for other details
which have been out on the Internet for over FOUR years.